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Tarboro Road Park Public Art

Raleigh Arts | A Percent for Art Project

Updated: Apr 24, 2025

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About the Artist About Tarboro Road Park

 

The Community Artist Selection Panel selected Deborah Aschheim as the public artist for Tarboro Road because of her ability to gather and include historical subject matter as well as her ability to work in a variety of media (glass, sculpture, drawings, video, etc.). Deborah has been working in Raleigh for the last few years on the Raleigh Stories project. During this time, she has been able to connect with hundreds of residents and gather personal histories from all over SE Raleigh. This foundation has been beneficial for her initial research and work on Tarboro Road Park. 

About the Artist

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Deborah Aschheim makes installations, sculptures, and drawings about memory and place for buildings, parks, hospitals, transportation, and social media platforms. She has explored themes of collective memory, oral history, and social justice in vernacular history projects that blend participant interviews with drawing to bring the stories of diverse communities to life.

Learn more about Deborah Aschheim

About Tarboro Road Park

Tarboro Road Park, 121 N. Tarboro Road in Raleigh, is an existing 3.2-acre park site approximately half mile east of downtown at the corner of Tarboro Road and East Edenton Street. 

The park was established in the 1970’s to serve the surrounding historically African American community.  Today it is the host to a heavily used community center and the historic Saint Monica Teen Center.  Site amenities include a picnic shelter, tennis courts, and a playground constructed in the 1990’s.

Since the establishment of the Tarboro Road Park, the community center has been incrementally enlarged over the past several decades to serve recreation and education needs of the expanding neighborhoods.  The current room layout along with the age and condition of the facilities are no longer adequate for the needs of the growing and transforming community.

The redevelopment of Tarboro Road Park is funded via the 2022 City of Raleigh Parks Bond in the amount of $29,300,000 for community engagement, design, permitting, and construction.  Redevelopment of the park will center around a new community center and may include a new playground, community gathering areas, court play space, landscaping, parking, and stormwater improvements.  The project also includes improvements and upgrades to the historic Saint Monica Teen Center.

The project timeline for planning, design, and construction of these improvements runs from 2024-2028. 

This project is part of the Tarboro Park Improvements Project and is a Percent for Art project.

Contact

 

Kelly Marks
Public Art Project Manager
kelly.marks@raleighnc.gov

Julia Whitfield
Public Art Community Engagement Coordinator
julia.whitfield@raleighnc.gov

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